This program will cover the evolution and history of surgical gloves; glove perforations and sharps injuries; the infection risk for the glove wearer and patient; double gloving and glove changing research; best glove practices; and current guidelines and standards of practice for glove changing.

The operating room has traditionally been one of the highest revenue generators for healthcare organizations. This continuing education activity will provide the perioperative nurse with information on ways to improve inventory management in the operating room. It will review the challenges and opportunities associated with effective supply management, and provide specific strategies on product standardization, inventory management and reduction, reduction of waste, data analysis, and improved physician preference card management.

This program is specifically designed to enhance the skills of all team members. The focus is on the essential steps of cleaning, disinfecting, and maintaining surgical instruments, particularly clip appliers fundamental in heart surgeries.

The purpose of this continuing education activity is to provide a review of the clinical considerations regarding the appropriate selection and use of facial protection devices in healthcare practice settings. It provides an overview of the health hazards inherent to the general healthcare and perioperative environment, criteria for appropriate selection and use of facial protection devices, and relevant regulations and recommendations for manufacture and use.

In dynamic healthcare facilities, high-touch shared equipment, including keyboards, Workstations on Wheels (WOWs), mobile tablets and smartphones, are contaminated and potential vectors for microbial transmission between users. Given the fast, daily pace in any healthcare environment, it can be challenging to effectively clean and disinfect these objects between uses by multiple team members – and do so without damaging the surfaces.

This program is designed to increase knowledge of the basics of skin health and its impact for people with incontinence. The activity will provide practical knowledge for clinicians on the care of fragile skin as well as including factors that influence skin health, how to maintain a balanced microbiome, what happens when the microbiome becomes unbalanced, and how to treat conditions related to declines in skin health.

This program aims to enhance the knowledge, skills and confidence of nurses, ensuring delivery of safe, effective urological care. Important aspects of this care include awareness of current and emerging advances in urological products and care processes that can align with evidence-based care practices to provide patients with the best opportunities for optimized urologic health.

Nurses and infection preventionists are balancing staff and patient safety, prevention of hospital-acquired infections, and the ever-changing regulatory environment. This program focuses on isolation gowns because they are a critical element of PPE, in that they prevent staff and patient exposure to infectious diseases and improve patient outcomes.

This educational activity is for the healthcare professional who is involved in the care of patients who are at high risk for arthritis and comorbidities, such as obesity and depression. At-risk individuals include women and those of African American and Hispanic descent. This group demonstrates “health disparities”, which are preventable differences in health status.

Die laparoskopische Cholezystektomie (LC) ist die bevorzugte Behandlung für Gallensteine und andere Gallenblasenerkrankungen. Obwohl die LC mittlerweile ein sehr gängiges Verfahren ist, das häufig ambulant durchgeführt wird, birgt sie immer noch Risiken für den Patienten. Jedes Mitglied des perioperativen Teams, einschließlich der Krankenpflegekräfte, chirurgisch-technischen Assistenten und Sterilisationsfachkräfte, spielt eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Optimierung der Sicherheit und Wirksamkeit der LC. In dieser Lerneinheit werden die Inzidenz und Prävalenz von symptomatischen Gallensteinen, die wichtigsten chirurgischen Techniken zur sicheren Entfernung der Gallenblase und die kritischen Sicherheitsaspekte und -maßnahmen für die Wiederaufbereitung von laparoskopischen Instrumenten und für chirurgisches Material - wie z.B. Gallenkanal-Klemmen - erörtert, die bei jedem LC-Patienten dazu beitragen, Komplikationen zu vermeiden und ein optimales postoperatives Ergebnis zu erzielen.

This ebook is intended to supplement education and training of vascular vessel mapping protocols for creation of an endovascular arteriovenous fistula (endoAVF) utilizing the approach with dual magnetic catheters and application of radiofrequency energy to create an endoAVF (dual catheter system) anastomosis.

As Chief Diversity and Community Health Equity Officer for UI Health of Chicago, Rani Morrison gives valuable insight into the intricate connection between health equity and patient outcomes. By expanding on this relationship, you'll gain insight into how factors such as social determinants of health, socioeconomic status, cultural competence, and healthcare system disparities impact patient well-being.

Cholecystektomia laparoskopowa (LC) jest metodą leczenia pierwszego rzutu w przypadku kamieni żółciowych i innych chorób pęcherzyka żółciowego. Chociaż stała się bardzo powszechnie wykonywanym zabiegiem, często przeprowadzanym w warunkach ambulatoryjnych, nadal wiąże się z ryzykiem dla pacjenta. Wszyscy członkowie zespołu operacyjnego, w tym pielęgniarki, instrumentariusze i technicy sterylizacji, odgrywają kluczową rolę w zapewnianiu bezpieczeństwa i skuteczności zabiegu. W niniejszym materiale szkoleniowym zostaną omówione zapadalność i chorobowość objawowej kamicy żółciowej, najważniejsze uznane techniki chirurgiczne zapewniające bezpieczne usunięcie pęcherzyka żółciowego, a także kluczowe aspekty dotyczące bezpieczeństwa oraz działania z zakresu obróbki narzędzi laparoskopowych i chirurgicznych – takich jak klipsy do zaciskania przewodu pęcherzykowego – dzięki którym pacjenci mogą uniknąć powikłań po LC i uzyskać optymalny wynik zabiegu.

Key characteristics of successful Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) nurses are those nurses that are knowledgeable, confident, efficient, organized and dedicated experts in PD therapy. This education activity offers a comprehensive approach for nurses who want to embark on a PD learning journey. Find out what PD is and how it works, including strategies to develop a structured PD patient training program, based on the International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD) syllabus.

This learning activity will focus on hypertension, the importance of accurate and standardized blood pressure measurement with proper patient positioning and best practice integration of blood pressure measurement in the clinical setting.

Explore the use of the Likorall UltraTwin® Lift System to assist in caring and supporting your patients. This system provides a comfortable and easily adjustable way to transfer and care for bariatric patients and helps to protect caregivers from injury.

Kidney function is an essential vital sign for hospitalized patients. Identifying the first signs of acute kidney injury can help protect patients from advanced stages of kidney injury that can lead to the development of chronic kidney disease. Nurses and other frontline care providers can benefit from understanding the correct approach to tracking the renal health of their patients, including through accurate measurement of urinary output. They can also benefit from being familiar with technologies available to automate urinary output monitoring. Additionally, it is beneficial to understand which patients are at high risk for acute kidney injury so nurses and other members of the patient’s care team can collaborate to understand a patient’s renal function and act swiftly when this function changes to prevent long-term complications.

All patients and members of the perioperative team deserve to be protected from the byproducts of surgical smoke and the potential complications that can follow. The decision about whether to evacuate surgical smoke is often left up to the surgeon’s discretion. But consistently using smoke evacuation equipment in the perioperative environment creates a safer environment for all.

This education program presents the background, incidence, costs, and prevention strategies that can be leveraged for preventing CLABSI in clinical care settings. Additionally, it will give learners background knowledge of central line use and provide awareness of central line infection risks.

The scope of this education activity will address the physiologic effects of different types of diabetes and the means of controlling diabetes to protect a person from diabetic complications and provide quality of life through treatment support.